ERIC Number: EJ1036516
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Apr
Pages: 20
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Rethinking Educational Spaces: A Review of Literature on Urban Youth and Social Media
Kidd, Terry T.; Carpenter, B. Stephen, II
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, v23 n2 p189-208 Apr 2014
This paper serves as an exploration into the landscape of social media use in educational research as it relates to urban youth in the United States. Initially, a social and learning context is provided that situates the implications social media may have for urban youth within formal and informal educational spaces. The paper offers a discussion of social media and recent studies in educational research as they relate to formal and informal learning spaces followed by implications of social media for these environments. A case is presented to reconceptualize a teaching and learning process with that of a social media process thereby connecting both the formal academic space with the informal emergent educational space afforded by social media. To this point we have attempted to establish a social context of education for urban youth.
Descriptors: Social Networks, Urban Youth, Informal Education, Conventional Instruction, Context Effect, Access to Computers, Academic Achievement, High School Students, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Literature Reviews
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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